The 30 Tyrants | The Fall of Athens

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Athens is world renowned for its ancient democracy, however with its defeat at the end of the Peloponnesian War this ancestral constitution is threatened with tyranny. But how did Athens lose the war? In this video we'll explore the chaotic times of stasis between oligarchy and democracy that eventually led to their perilous position in 404 BCE.

Sources:

Thucydides 8.45 – 8.98

Aristotle. Constitution of Athens. 29 - 34

Xenophon Hellenica 2.2.10 – 2.4.43

Lysias. 12 “Against Eratosthenes”

Diodorus Siculus 13.36 - 14.4

Stem, R.,
2003 The Thirty at Athens in the Summer of 404, The Classical Association of Canada, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 18 – 34.

LeCaire, L.,
2013 Tyranny and terror: the failure of Athenian
democracy and the reign of the Thirty Tyrants, EWU Masters
Thesis Collection. 179. http://dc.ewu.edu/theses/

Kagan, D.,
1987 The Fall of the Athenian Empire, Cornell University Press, London.

Krentz, P.,
2009 The Arginousai Affair, in R. B. Strassler, The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenica, Pantheon Books, London,

Krentz, P.,
2009 The Athenian Government and the Oligarchy of the Thirty, in R. B. Strassler, The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenica, Pantheon Books, London,

Chapters:
0:00 The Surrender of Athens
3:10 Stasis in Athens
5:03 The Coup of 411 BCE
8:32 The Argounisai Affair
12:10 The Installation of the 30